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Reject modernity. Embrace lynx browser from terminal.

About as well as Devin taking all of our jobs (which I think was supposed to happen a while ago). How’s that one doing?

My life has only gotten worse since getting addicted to forums and social media. I’ve become much less productive as well. Feels bad :(

You can sign up for an account now on browser. You can only log in with an email. They send you a confirmation code to your email that you have to put in, in order to log in. Once you do this, you can create your username (which is tied to an email). This is probably to stop people from using throwaway accounts to log in.

So far I like Lemmy more but I’ll scope it out to see what happens next.

Isn’t one of the guys behind reddit also behind bringing this back? It seems like another way to corner the market. I’d still join for a week to see if it could be my thing, though

There aren’t children in hell.

Law and Order SVU 6.06 begs to differ.

I’m being a bit extra but…

Your statement:

The article headline is wildly misleading, bordering on being just a straight up lie.

The article headline:

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It

The general story in reference to the headline:

• He found csam in a known AI dataset, a dataset which he stored in his account.
• Google banned him for having this data in his account.
• The article mentions that he tripped the automated monitoring tools.

The article headline is accurate if you interpret it as

“A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It” (“it” being “csam”).

The article headline is inaccurate if you interpret it as

“A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It” (“it” being “reporting csam”).

I read it as the former, because the action of reporting isn’t listed in the headline at all.

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Google isn’t the only service checking for csam. Microsoft (and other file hosting services, likely) also have methods to do this. This doesn’t mean they also host csam to detect it. I believe their checks use hash values to determine if a picture is already clocked as being in that category.

This has existed since 2009 and provides good insight on the topic, used for detecting all sorts of bad category images:

https://technologycoalition.org/news/the-tech-coalition-empowers-industry-to-combat-online-child-sexual-abuse-with-expanded-photodna-licensing/

There’s no point in taking moderation seriously. It’s a volunteer position and the tools to handle slop aren’t there.

I hear they’re bringing back digg.

I also hear it’s a former Reddit C-suite that’s bringing it back, so it’ll probably be more of the same.

Last I checked years ago, they sold their carbon credits for a whole lot of money whenever they earned them.

AI can scrape books and journals for info, but can’t scrape Reddit?

All you need to know about his company promises: “HE FIXED TRAFFIC”, from Adam Something on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p8NiM_p8n5A

1. Linux tutorials need to get idiot proof.
2. They need to work on giving people knowledge about driver support. “Why doesn’t my bluetooth/sound/wifi work anymore?” shouldn’t be such a common issue for people switching to those OSs.
3. If Recall is sending your information to offsite servers, what’s stopping people from flooding those servers with bs?

Not only was the apology horrible, but for any user on that platform for YEARS: obviously puts the thought in their head that spez could be changing their words by directly editing the db, and getting them put on a list for wrong-speak. Sure, that’s possible with any DB, but he proved it was actually something being done on that site. Given his role, a major red flag, as this type of action would normally result in someone being fired.

Reddit has since IPOd and is going to probably do well as a stock because of all the information it harvests from users.

I’ll never forget how he changed users’ text without them knowing it before the 2016 election. Reddit was going downhill before, but that was a turning point.

Make an AI that is trained on the books.

Tell it to tell you a story for one of the books.

Read the story without paying for it.

The law says this is ok now, right?

Stop the sale of carbon credits and you’ll really see the stock dip.